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Green Wedges Coalition Advocacy Watchlist 2018

Author: 
Green Wedges Coalition
12/02/2018
Subject: 
GWC
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Purpose

The purpose of this Watchlist is to provide a resource document that identifies the specific issues of concern to the Green Wedges Coalition and its partner organisations across all the Green Wedges.

The advocacy themes are divided into:

  • State Government Programs

The main programs of immediate concern at present are the Smart Planning Program and the Sustainable Animals Industries initiative. These two programs have the potential to destroy the rural values of the Green Wedges.

Unsustainable Intensive Animal Production

Author: 
Christine Pruneau

This is a keynote address prepsented at the Green Wedges Coalition AGM on 7 December 2017 and a copy is attached as a pdf.

07/12/2017
Subject: 
Landuse Planning

Submission to the State Government Discussion Paper: Reforming the Victoria Planning Provisions

The future of the Green Wedges is vital to the quality of life and the reputation of Melbourne as one of the world’s most liveable cities.

Yet the Green Wedges are in danger of disappearing from both the ongoing encroachment of urban development and more insidiously a gradual increase in built development under uses permissible under existing non-urban zones.  These uses and these threats will be exacerbated by the line-by-line program of deregulation advanced in this discussion paper, which could lead to ‘death by a thousand cuts’ for the Green Wedges. .

Wednesday, 31 January, 2018

Green Wedges to be protected and refreshed in latest Metropolitan Planning Strategy

The good news in Minister Wynne’s new Plan Melbourne Refresh is that Melbourne’s Green Wedges are safe, behind the locked-down Urban Growth Boundary that was an election pledge of the Andrews Government.

More good news is that the new plan builds on and provides much-needed detail to former Minister Guy’s original 2014 Plan Melbourne, which also committed to a permanent Urban Growth Boundary.

Plan Melbourne refresh - submissions analysis May 2016

Author: 
Green Wedge Coalition

Plan Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Strategy Submissions Analysis - May 2016

This following documentation is a direct extraction of content from the State Government’s recently released Plan Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Strategy Submissions Analysis May 2016 relevant to the issues of the Green Wedge Coalition as detailed in our submission to Plan Melbourne refresh process made in December last year.

This report was independently prepared for the State Government by Capire Consulting.

27/06/2016
Subject: 
Landuse Planning

Plan Melbourne refresh - submissions analysis May 2016

Author: 
Alan Thatcher
06/06/2016
Subject: 
Policy
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Plan Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Strategy Submissions Analysis May 2016

This report was independently prepared for the State Government by Capire Consulting.

This summary does not provide the state government’s response to the main messages but aims only to overview what organisations and individuals said.

Green Wedges proposed planning scheme amendments - May update

Author: 
Alan Thatcher
12/05/2016
Subject: 
Landuse Planning
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Attached is the May update for proposed planning scheme amendments in the Green Wedge municipalities.

Those proposed amendments that relate directly to the Green Wedge zones are shaded in light blue.

Please note C100 for the Frankston City Planning Scheme is for a review of the planning scheme and offers the opportunity for GWC members to have their say about the future direction for land use and development in the municipality.

Green Wedges proposed planning scheme amendments

Author: 
Alan Thatcher
12/04/2016
Subject: 
Landuse Planning
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Proposed planning scheme amendments

Purpose

The purpose of this listing of proposed planning scheme amendments (attached as a pdf file) is to alert your groups to any proposed land use changes in your municipal planning scheme that may be of concern to your organisation for the future of the Green Wedges.. And assist in pointing your organisation to the appropriate sources of information and most importantly timelines. Please forward this information to any groups as you think appropriate.

Introduction

Future directions - GWC website update March 2016

Author: 
Alan Thatcher
29/03/2016
Subject: 
GWC
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Louis Delacretaz has done an excellent job redesigning the  new look Green Wedge Coalition website. 

I have attached my first 'Future directions website update. This is the same document that was circulated to you earlier by Rosemary West in a request for information on activities from member groups.

The purpose of this document is three fold, to identify:

1. Overall priority issues

Plan Melbourne Discussion Paper (2015)

The future of the Green Wedges is vital to the quality of life andthe reputation of Melbourne asone of the world’s most liveable cities.

Yet the Green Wedges are in danger of disappearing from both the ongoing encroachment ofurban development and more insidiously a gradual increase in built development under uses permissible under existing nonurban zoning. These could lead to ‘death by a thousand cuts’.

Saturday, 12 September, 2015

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